Rescher, Nicholas.

Scholastic Meditations. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (182 pages) - Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy; Series . - Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy; Series .

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Choice without Preference: The Problem of "Buridan's Ass" -- 2. Nicholas of Cusa on the Koran: A Fifteenth-Century Encounter with Islam -- 3. On Learned Ignorance and the Limits of Knowledge -- 4. Unanswerable Questions and Insolubilia -- 5. Omniscience and Our Understanding of God's Knowledge -- 6. Issues of Infinite Regress -- 7. Being qua Being -- 8. Nonexistents Then and Now -- 9. Thomism: Past, Present, and Future -- 10. Respect for Tradition (And the Catholic Philosopher Today) -- Index.

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Scholasticism.


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